342 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

The articulate voice is more distracting than mere noise

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.